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Take a look at Layered Office, Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture property by NoMaDoS. This is a plan to rebrand and renovate the headquarters of a company supporting the well-known tile projects of Morioka City buildings.
Maruno Corporation has been engaged in tile projects for almost 90 years since its inception. Its headquarters building has a history of 50 years, accumulating long-term technology and history.
Finally we show The Ohori Terrace in Fukuoka City, Kyushu Island by rhythmdesign. This is a wooden building that harmonizes with Ohori park’s abundant nature. The designer’s vision required a clean structure.
This is a house built in the central portion of the city in Hokkaido. The neighboring house approaches the next ground very limit borderline on the housing complex and the east side of seven stories, and there is a building of the tax office not used now in the west side in the south.
The site sits in Northern Japan, in a small city of Eastern Hokkaido with a mere population of 7000. The forestry industry has been lasting since long ago, however depopulation advances while the factory industry declines.
Shounan House, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan – design by Jun Igarashi Architects – located 10-minute’s walk from the station, with much old housing stock.
House of Seven Gardens, Gunma, Japan design by Takashi Fujino / Ikimono Architects – elegant and poetic Japanese timber frame construction, new property
Hidemi Nishida is a Sapporo-based artist, designer. The “Fragile Shelter” is one of his works of the “Shelter series”. This winter temporary shelter leads people to gather, have a party, stay, feel something and so on in the white woods.
GR230 is a highway service center located in the town of Kimobetsu, Hokkaido. Situated along Route 230 at the crossroads leading towards Kutchan and Rusutsu, the facility is a vital hub connecting various areas in the Shiribeshi subprefecture
The Number House. This is a mass-produced type ready-built house often developed on a large scale, and as such, has the advantage of producing entire housing of rows.
The plan of a house with a small beauty shop on the first floor. A house for a family of four: the young couple running the shop, their 3 year-old girl, and their newborn.
The site has an elongated shape with a width of about 9m and a depth of 20m. While the front road is relatively wide, with a sidewalk, one might get a feeling of oppression due to the small size of the site surrounded as it by shops and houses of from 2 to 3 stories.
The house is placed at suburbs in Hiroshima, and designed for 4 members of a family with two kids. Because there are is lot of traffic around the area, we considered the house, which is closed from outside as much as possible but still keep its space open without any pressure of the separation from the outside.
When they are young, places like a narrow path between houses, the edge of a garden, the back of a shed, under the floor, or an open lot are the preferred playgrounds of children.
This is a residential house located in a new development site in Takarazuka, Japan. Because of the solid nature of the ground, we decided to make a building only by putting a roof over the sloped terrain without modifying it.
Located in suburb area, House in Yotsukaido is a residence that looks to merge the boundaries between private interior space and the context. A non-transference glass terrace connects to the home.
The site is placed in Saitama –ken, Japan, where it has a rich nature environment with beautiful scenery of a hill. The client wanted their house that is open to the nature environment and also has a depth in the space.
Among the plots of land for sale in Kita Kamakura there are some sites in the outskirts – which at first glance have the negative condition of being uneven. This is a plan to create an appealing living space by building directly over that uneven land.
A client is a couple with three children hoped there are bright openhearted space, and keeping the privacy. This site is a field before, and bearing stratum is minus one meter from the ground side.
The Otake house is located in the West of Hiroshima prefecture, on a high plateau that neighbors the Kamei Park of the Kamei Castle Ruins. To the South is an industrial region and a beautiful mountain range, and to the North a remarkable view of the Seto Inland Sea and Miyajima.